Share your dollar stretching tips
Over the past few weeks, we’ve been running special segments called “Stretch Your Dollar” in an effort to help you make the most of your money in your everyday life. See some of our favorites after the jump.
One of the tips I honestly did not know about was our segment about checking your chicken for liquid infusion, which can lead to consumers being charged for extra broth to give the appearance of a plumper bird.
Other tips are more well-known, such as regularly maintaining your car and using online means to price down your vacations, but now we want to hear from you. You can submit in one of two ways: leave a comment to this post or e-mail your tips to stretchyourdollar@ksat.com. How about doing both, though, just to make sure everybody can see your dollar-stretching ideas.
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I’ll go to different stores and look for meat items that are on sale/ as long as they have not reached expiration date - they’re MINE - they go straight into my freezer for use at a later date.
If I have alot of something - I’ll set up some plates and make my own ‘TV’ dinners / so this saves time, electric or gas energy, as well electricity used for air-conditioning to cool the house down after all that cooking.
I’ve stopped buying soft drinks and making a Sugar-Free Mix and making my own. This gets us off the soft drink kick @ almost 3.00+ for a 3 liter soda to 1 package to make 3 gallons of Raspberry Tea etc…Talk about saving money and losing weight..
—- OH and by the way! I started taking the bus, this is the 2nd week I’m doing this - I’m shaping up, losing weight - and find myself less stress because VIA does the High Price of Gas worrying and Road Rage handling for me!!
When I do take my car - we have a road plan and make a big circle - no traveling back and forth —
So I don’t know if this is what you mean by stretching my dollars - but for me it works -Good Luck and
GOD BLESS AMERICA - YA’LL
Comment by barbara — May 9, 2008 @ 3:44 pm
I travel nearly 60 miles round trip to work daily. Knowing that there were other teachers at my school in my area, I suggested we carpool. We are now sharing a ride between four people. The amount of gas and money we’ve saved over the past couple of weeks has been highly noticable. It is nice to get to know people we probably wouldn’t have had much of a chance to get to know too!
Comment by Krystal — May 9, 2008 @ 6:18 pm